Somalia:ASOJ worries about situation of 2 foreign
journalists being held in the capital.
Mogadishu
25 Fabaury 2009 Waagacusub Media
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Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) is concerning about
the conditions of two foreign journalists still being
held as hostages in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia
“we are receiving facts A Canadian journalist and an
Australian photographer that are still being held in
Mogadishu taken each night to different villages in the
city and what we known is that one of them gone hungry
strike, therefore we are appealing to the Somali
journalists to stand up for how they could free the
foreign journalists from the kidnappers,” said in a
statement issued from the ASOJ office in Mogadishu on 26
February 2009.
ASOJ says it is shameful that the local media in
Mogadishu keep silence about the kidnapping of foreign
journalists. It suggests to put pressure on the kidnappers
until they release the reporters unconditionally.
“ASOJ is confirming that the two foreign journalists is
being held in Huriwa neighborhood in north of Mogadishu
where it is under the control of the warlord Yusuf Mohamed
Siad Indha-Adde,” the statement said calling for
Indha-Adde to honestly help release the journalists.
The Association lastly asked for the Hawiye clan elders to
stand for the safety of foreign journalists from the hands
of the gangs.
The journalists were kidnapped between the Afgoye district
and the capital city with their Somali photojournalist,
Abdifatah Mohammed Elmi, who was acting as a translator
for the two August 2008 by unknown militiamen.
They had been returning from interviewing locals in the
Afgoye district when they were abducted.
Abdifitah later was released after months of been held as
hostage.
By Dahir Abdulle
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